The Gift of the Other: Gabriel Marcel's Concept of Intersubjectivity in Walker Percy's Novels

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Mary Deems Howland

—"I owe a special debt to Walker Percy for the gift of novels which have spoken to me when I was most in need of counsel. Even the rigors of critical analysis cannot dampen the pleasure I continue to take in his novelistic explorations of what it is to live a life. Percy's unfailing humor, humanity and spiritual depth reach out to the reader and engage him or her in the ongoing journey which is each person's life." — Mary Deems Howland (from the Acknowledgments)

Table of Contents:

1. Walker Percy & Gabriel Marcel: Intersubjectivity and World
2. Binx Bolling: From Spectator to Participant
3. Will Barrett: Man for Others
4. Tom Moore's Lapsometer: A High Tech Alternative to Intersubjectivity
5. Lancelot: The Nadir of Intersubjectivity
6. The Second Coming: Intersubjectivity Achieved
7. The Thanatos Syndrome: Abstraction Ascendant

Mary Deems Howland is the author of The Gift of the Other: Gabriel Marcel's Concept of Intersubjectivity in Walker Percy's Novels.

Publication Date: 1990

Pages: 179